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WASHINGTON (AP) PresidentJoe Bidenon Wednesday announced five nominees to federal judgeships, including the first Muslim-American on any circuit court, looking to add to more than 150 of his judicial selections who have already been confirmed to the bench.

A Brooklyn roadway was transformed into a lake when a thunderstorm hammered the Big Apple with torrential downpours Monday evening. Carroll Street took the brunt of the flooding, with a whole section of the street blocked off with orange barricades that were halfway covered in water themselves, video posted by the NYC Scanner account shows.

Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst left a heart-wrenching suicide text for her mother before jumping to her death from her 29th-story Midtown Manhattan high-rise apartment in January. April Simpkins, 53, revealed her daughters tragic last words on an emotional Wednesday episode of the Facebook series Red Table Talk, hosted by Jada PinkettSmith, her daughter, Willow

Point guard who made his NBA debut in 2013 for the Atlanta Hawks. He joined the German senior national team in 2014. He began his professional career in 2010 for German club SG Braunschweig. He was chosen 17th overall in the 2013 NBA draft by the Hawks.

The esteemed Guggenheim has now joined the MET and Whitney bumping up admission prices by 20% as museums across the country struggle to regain pre-pandemic visitor levels. When the Guggenheim opened in 1959, 50 cents would get you inside the modern art museum equivalent to just over $5 in todays money.